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 ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO (TOKYO) NUMBER SEVENTY-SEVEN |
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| Inari Bridge and Minato Shrine, Teppozu (Teppozu Inaribashi Minato Jinja) |
| The view here is looking up Hatchobori Canal to the west from its mouth at Edo Bay. This particular place was a critical junction in the waterways of Edo, for it marked the point where the large seagoing ships from western Japan were anchored and their cargoes were transferred into small lighters for distribution to the many quays and storehouses that lined the canals of the city. |
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| In 1909, The Hudson-Fulton Celebration was staged in New York Harbor.
This event was a combined celebration of Henry Hudson's discovery of the Hudson River in 1609, and Robert Fulton's historic steamboat voyage on the Hudson in 1809. |
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| St. Louis River View -- 1853 |
| Founded in 1764 by French fur traders from New Orleans, lead by Pierre Laclede Liguestand, and named for Louis IX, the King of France, St. Louis was built on a high bluff just 18 miles south of the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers--a perfect site from which to trade with Native Americans in the fur-rich lands to the west.
St. Louis became American when Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to President Thomas Jefferson in 1803, doubling the size of the United States. When Jefferson sent explorers Lewis and Clark from St. Louis to chart the new Louisiana Territory in 1804, more than 1,000 people, mostly French, Spanish, Indian and both free and slave blacks, lived in the city which was already the center of the fur trade in America. Two years later, after the triumphant explorers returned from the Pacific with their Corps of Discovery, St. Louis became the last stop for mountain men and trappers heading to the newly opened frontier. An early nickname for St. Louis was "Mound City," derived from the earth mounds left by the Mississippians, the original Indian inhabitants of the valley. The first steamboat, the Zebulon M. Pike, arrived in St. Louis on July 27, 1817, heralding a new era of commerce and travel along the Mississippi River. Soon it was common to see more than 100 steamboats lining the cobblestone levee during the day. St. Louis grew from a population of 16,000 in 1840 to over ten times this amount in 1860. Annual steamboat arrivals grew from 3 to over 3,600 in the period from 1817 to 1858. St. Louis's booming fur trade lasted until 1840, but the westward movement of Americans through St. Louis--"the gateway to the west"--was to last for many more years. For decades, entrepreneurs would make fortunes in St. Louis outfitting wagon trains, trappers, miners, and traders. In 1849, a deadly fire destroyed one-third of the city when the steamboat White Cloud exploded on the riverfront. The Dred Scott trials, which began at the Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis, led the nation to Civil War when the eventual outcome in the Supreme Court of the United States denied citizenship and rights to slaves. When the Civil War broke out, St. Louis was the most important city in the West. The war divided the city just as it divided the country. Missouri stayed in the Union as a slave state and abolitionists shared the streets of the city with slaveholders. The cessation of river traffic from the South retarded progress, but the city was not directly involved in conflict. New immigrants changed the face of St. Louis throughout the 19th century. Joining the French, Spanish, Indians and African descendants were Germans who settled in St. Louis and along the Rhine-like Missouri River valley, Irish who escaped the potato famine, Italians who worked the clay mines and newcomers from many nations who heard about the great city on the Mississippi where fortunes could be made. |
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| Re-enacting a slave auction. |
| With 2011 marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's beginning, tourists and history buffs are expected to travel to famous battle sites, such as Gettysburg and Bull Run, in record numbers. Missouri would like some of that attention--only Virginia and Tennessee contain more Civil War battle sites.
Missouri was on the western front of the Civil War. The Battle of Wilson's Creek was fought there; in total, more than 1,000 skirmishes and battles took place in the state. A few miles south of St. Louis, Jefferson Barracks was the first federal Army post west of the Mississippi River. Both Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee served there in the years before the war. |
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Dr. Jonas Salk used a food service machine in his laboratory while he was working on the Salk Polio vaccine.
Can you name the specific machine he used
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 | If family is a machine for making you crazy, has there ever been a machine better oiled than the Lamberts? The elderly father, Alfred, is a retired railway engineer sliding into the mental and physical chaos of Parkinson's disease. Wife Enid fashions ever more ingenious varieties of denial. Son Chip is helping con men in Lithuania. His brother Gary is consoling himself with booze for the miseries of his own disintegrating home life. Their sister Denise, in the time she can spare from her career as a celebrity chef, makes reckless thrusts into other people's marriages. Their miseries are an opening onto the larger discontents of the society that they--we--live in, but Franzen keeps his terrible focus on the family. This can be a very funny book in places, but the laughs come hard, very hard. |  Jonathan Franzen |
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What is turophilia
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| FLORIDA On a white field emblazoned with a red X and the state seal, Florida's flag represents the land of sunshine, flowers, palm trees, rivers and lakes. The seal features a brilliant sun, a cabbage palmetto tree, a steamboat sailing and a Native American Seminole woman scattering flowers. | |
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| Pencil sketching is an interesting and powerful element of design. To put it correctly, pencil sketching can be termed as "the mother of graphic arts."
The general perception about drawing pencil sketches is that it is either a part of initial training given to Fine Arts students or it's a good hobby for anyone who can draw well. What most of us don't know is that making pencil sketches is almost an inevitable part of design and a unique branch of art in itself. |
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